Construct Your Humanism! 2018

John M. Stang Elective

June 3 - 23, 2018 | Hillsboro, WV

Open to all members of the caring fields—health care, education, governance, parenting, social service, law, ecology, small business.

Patch Adams Md and the School for Designing a Society invite you to construct your humanism! Join us for three weeks in Urbana Illinois where we'll offer teaching presentations, experiential exercises, community living, art making, clowning. These activities will explore humanism as a counter to de-humanism. How can we counteract social structures—legal, non-legal, formal, informal---that treat people as something other than people?

The three week session explores this question by taking its title as a mandate: "Construct your humanism!" Each participant will construct strategies, designs, and anticipatory structures to support , protect and embody her humanism---an 'action plan'.

What will we do? Who will we be?

Participants will spend the session in a cooperative living and learning environment. We'll create a community where we'll will cook and clean together, learn and teach with each other, play with one another and with the greater community as clowns, performers, composers. At the same time, we will be expanding our knowledge of a number of important topics not typically emphasized in school curricula.

Schedule

Mornings: Four days a week we'll meet from 9am-12noon, where topics, concepts, exercises, games, art lubes will be offered as part of building our community. An extraordinary emphasis will be given to 'play', as we consider 'play' the vision and practice of belonging.

Afternoons: After lunch and siesta, we'll go out into the greater community around us, and serve ('at your service, community!'), using some of the games and composition ideas we learned in the mornings. On other afternoons, we'll put on our 'visiting' hat and gloves, and visit community projects in the area.

Logistics

Tuitions costs ($1200) will cover all majors expenses for the three weeks, including housing, meals, snacks, lectures, evening on site activities, and local transportation for official activities. Participants pay their own way to the designated airport, and transportation is provided from there. Some weekends will be free, with optional scheduled activities each weekend.

Who Should Apply?

We welcome participants from the variety of caring fields, in whatever role the participant plays (for example, in education, we welcome the participation of teachers, students, family). We are especially eager to create a multi-generational community, so teenagers from age 17 on and are invited to apply, as well as older adults.

Registration form: Please take a moment to fill out the registration form. We will then contact you to arrange a phone interview. After the phone call, you will hear back from us concerning your acceptance in the program. Register Now >

Payment: Upon your acceptance, we ask that you payeither the entire fee or deposit online via secure PayPal account or with a check payable to School for Designing a Society. Pay Now >